The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 1/25/2019 was 102.3 (+0.3%), up marginally from last week. Alibaba Cloud increased (62.7, +1.8%) and was the only tracked Cloud Serivce Provider (CSP) with any significant change from the previous week. Microsoft Azure (104.5, +0.5%) and Amazon AWS (106.4, +0.2%) were fractionally positive while Google…

BigCommerce Migrates to Google Cloud BigCommerce, an e-commerce Saas provider based right here in Austin, Texas, announced that it is migrating its infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform. Once the migration is complete, BigCommerce’s more than 60,000 merchants powering online sales will be connected with Google. The migration move is aimed at competing with Amazon’s e-retail…

The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 1/18/2019 was 102.0 (+0.7%), up slightly from the previous week. In the absence of major outages, CSPs are benefiting from the way services can be viewed as an always-on utility, providing reliable services for many types of applications. Alibaba Cloud (61.6, +1.1%) and Amazon AWS…

Insights from NRF 2019 The National Retail Federation’s Big Retail Show, the world’s largest retail conference, took place, January 13-15, in New York City. Many major cloud providers such as Microsoft and AWS were in attendance to share their latest plans and services. Liftr Cloud Insights got the inside scoop about the event.…

The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 1/11/2018 is 101.3 (-0.4%), down marginally from the previous week. Sentiment (95.8, -2.8%) was the only factor affecting the overall index. Alibaba Cloud (60.9, +0.2%) was stable overall based on minor gains to its Adaptability, Presence and Sentiment scores. Alibaba Cloud slightly expanded its marketplace,…

The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 1/04/2018 is 101.7 (+0.1%), up marginally from the previous week. Alibaba Cloud Sentiment (103.3, -6.0%) is returning to baseline levels after receiving a boost the previous week from FIFA football (soccer) related tweets. Despite this decrease, Alibaba Cloud Sentiment still remains the highest among all…

The overall Liftr Cloud Index for the week ending Friday 12/07/2018 is 100.9 (+0.4%), steady from the previous week. Google Cloud Sentiment is on the increase (+3.2%) after last month’s drop due to the widespread service outage on November 13. Upticks in sentiment were driven by positive reaction to new Google Cloud CEO, buzz from Google…

New and Upcoming for Cloud Insights In a blog post for Forbes, Liftr analyst Paul Teich predicts the future of containers for the cloud noting how enterprise development has reached a tipping point. Teich takes a deeper dive on that topic for The Next Platform where he predicts a shift away from legacy virtual…

Alexa and Phillips Hue Crash Christmas Day Before the holiday break, Liftr Cloud Insights predicted outages as Christmas approached, and outages there were indeed. Gift receivers wishing to set up their new Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices, a popular Christmas gift this year, were met with connectivity issues beginning 10 A.M. Christmas Day. The…